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TODAY'S BIG BAG O' LINX

April 6th, 2006 by Clark Humphrey

The April Belltown Messenger is finally out, delayed due to equipment installation at the printer. It’s got a big essay by me comparing five of the neighborhood’s churches on an aesthetic/cultural level.
Should antiwar activists learn to think more like warriors?
Imani Mance asserts, meanwhile, that “activists can no longer afford to be broke.”
Peter Steinbrueck dislikes the new development rules that allow more highrise towers with nothing but blank walls at the sidewalk level.
The NY Times has scrapped the dozen or so pages of stock prices that used to fill its back section, figuring anybody who really wants them can find them online. Now, if they’ll only start printing the investment data that really counts these days–the going rates on eBay for role-playing-game “strength points.”
If Mac computers can now seamlessly run Windows, how will software companies still be persuaded to write applications for Mac OS?
We apparently missed the demise of Dark Shadows creator and Night Stalker producer Dan Curtis.
But we did catch the death notice of George Carlson, a real-estate executive who dabbled in television. His show, known locally as Northwest Traveler and syndicated as simply The Traveler, ran once a week at 7 p.m. for 13 years. The show was a simple travelogue. Carlson, in the studio, would interview some local affluent couple, who then narrated 16mm film footage of their last trip to India, Egypt, Taiwan, or some other place where the natives don’t even speak the same language we do. Because this footage was silent, Carlson stuck syrupy library music behind the narration. It was all a relic of a simpler time, one might say.
Bill Nye the Science Guy goes to Waco, TX; gets a silent protest when he politely disses creationism.
If you’re going out Friday in Seattle, you might consider attending the book tour by leading progressive bloggers Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Jerome Armstrong, plugging their political repair manual Crashing the Gate. They’re speaking at 7 p.m. at the Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave. On the Eastside, they’ll be at Marymoor Park at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Be there. Aloha.